A STUDY OF ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT AMONG TRIBAL AND NON-TRIBAL ADOLESCENTS OF KASHMIR

This paper explored the academic achievement of tribal and non-tribal adolescent students’ in secondary schools of Kashmir division. Sample was comprised of 564 students randomly selected from three secondary schools. Academic achievement was obtained from the school records of the sample students. Gender wise and category wise comparisons were done using mean, S.D. and independent samples t-test. Results showed that tribal and non-tribal adolescents differ significantly on the measure of academic achievement at 0.001 level. Nontribal adolescents were found to have a higher level of academic achievement than tribal students. The study also revealed that there is no significant difference between male and female adolescents on the measure of academic achievement.